Parco delle Risaie Association

During Expo 2015 Parco delle Risaie Association offers a guided tour around the “agricultural Park of Rice” in collaboration with DAM, to discover the history and the culture of rice. An interesting itinerary through nature, agricultural tradition and food that will make you know the world of the rice paddies in its technical aspects (rice paddy morphology, water management, flora and fauna, cultivation phases and techniques) as well as in the social, dietary and gastronomical ones.

Parco delle Risaie, an agricultural heart for Milan

Never closed in itself, never defensible, always generous. Every day the city pours into the countryside and the countryside goes into the town. The history of Parco delle Risaie begins here. Rice paddies in the city! A postmodern city that produces rice in quantity and quality! Rice here also tells a story, and that story is the real stakes in the whole adventure of Parko delle Risaie […] This is also to understand and convey the sense of history that helped to create Parco delle Risaie. Not just the story itself, because all things begin and end… I talk about the sense of this history, its cultural strength, which is all about the future of Milan and the world.
Luca Doninelli, writer.

Parco delle Risaie, non-profit association, was established in October 2008 by a meeting between a group of residents in the district Barona - S. Ambrose of Milan (zone 6) and farmers, joined by the common interest to preserve and enhance this particular urban agricultural area, to preserve productive function, promote activities of exploitation of nature, environment and local area, and transform it into a concrete project of love for this place, and the awareness of its value…